FLORIDA.


sooner.
uct.


It is destined


to become a very important prod-


 THE LIME.-This is a very dainty and delicious fruit,
smaller in size but otherwise closely resembling the lemon.
The juice is more agreeably acid and makes a very pleas-
ant drink; a glass of limeonade is sure to be remembered
with pleasure. It grows very rapidly, like a small lemon-
tree, bears in its third year, and produces large crops. The
culture is precisely the same.
 THE CITRON.-This is the chief of the citric family of
fruits. It is in all respects like the orange, in appearance
of the tree as well as in the care required. The fruit close-
ly resembles the orange, except that it is larger and more
yellow in color. Plucked from the tree, it is not a pleasant
fruit to eat. Heretofore but little attention has been paid
to the cultivation of this fruit in Florida, except for variety
and ornament, and it is not usual to observe more than one


or two trees in
though it is gro
tion, frequently
there is no doub


a large garden of several acres in extent,
wn here with the greatest ease and perfec-
producing fruit weighing ten pounds, and
t but that it may be cultivated, preserved,


and introduced into our home-markets as
merce, with great profit to the producer.
variety of this species so easily propagate
hardy, or that yields its fruit so quickly,
abundantly; and the circumstance that 1
the sugar for preserving it are produced
with equal facility, gives to the American
advantage over the foreign producer in
citron prepared and preserved by private I
for home use is of much finer quality, lil
more transparent, than the imported.
 BERGAMOT.-This is a hybrid of th
lemon, is small, yellow in color, has a th
with a sour-sweet, flavorless taste. It is


an article of corn-
There is no other
d, and none more
or produces more
both the fruit and
in the same field.


cultivator a
our market.


great
The


families in Florida
ghter colored, and

e orange and the
ick skin, is juicy,
cultivated chiefly